Product Description: Mythic Monsters: Aberrations brings you a dozen and one misshapen mutants, from old-school monsters like the hideous otyugh, the brilliant but brutal tentacular roper, the clever cloaker, and the treasure-trap mimic, to newer hunters like the swift and sneaky choker...read more

Product Description: Mythic Monsters: Aberrations brings you a dozen and one misshapen mutants, from old-school monsters like the hideous otyugh, the brilliant but brutal tentacular roper, the clever cloaker, and the treasure-trap mimic, to newer hunters like the swift and sneaky choker...read more

Product Description: Spectacular sculptures in wood, bronze, and stone, as well as mural painting, ceremonial pieces, ceramics, jewelry, and textiles provide stunning proof that although these works were not made to be "art," they can be enjoyed by Western viewers purely on their aesthetic merits...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A comprehensive survey of these lively and imaginative artifacts. Over 600 years ago the Akan began making brass weights for measuring gold dust, the currency of their region in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. They eventually produced the most complete three-dimensional inventory in any culture in history...read more

Product Description: Released in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien has come to be regarded as a classic film, and has been widely written about. But how have audiences engaged with it? This book presents the – sometimes very surprising – results of a major audience research project, exploring how people remember and continue to engage with the film...read more

Product Description: Most children enjoy drawing and use it to express a wide range of experiences and emotions. Drawing can offer an avenue of expression where words fail. So why do many people stop drawing after the early school years? This is an examination of the early work of John Everett Millais, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Michael Rothenstein, Gerard Hoffnung, Sarah Raphael and David Downes to investigate the reasons why these artists were able to sustain and develop their drawing skill and expressive potential while others failed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: To celebrate the acquisition of the archive of distinguished artist Tom Phillips, the Bodleian Library asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards...read more

Product Description: Everyone loves chocolate cake, and here are recipes and simple instructions for baking and decorating 20 of the most delicious and decadent versions ever. Despite common misconceptions, working with chocolate can be easy. All that's needed is sound advice and a few easily mastered techniques...read more

Product Description: Crisp, clean, perfect, unread copy

The complete, translated text of Dante's great masterpiece is accompanied by 139 prints, which provide a visual commentary to the poet's journey through hell

Covers the pages of a Victorian novel with artwork revealing only selected words to create a surrealistic story about Bill Toge, a victim of love

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Product Description: To celebrate the acquisition of the archive of distinguished artist Tom Phillips, the Bodleian Library asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards...read more

Product Description: Art loves music: From the tombs of Ancient Egypt to the late 20th century, painting and sculpture have played their variations on musical themes. Tom Phillips examines masterpieces from the history of the visual arts that have been inspired by music...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Biologist Marti Jamison and her physicist husband Richard have left Columbia University to come to the small Texas campus of Plainview University where Marti will teach evolutionary biology and Richard will pursue research in the physics of Virtual Reality, at the lab constructed under his direction, the Virtual CAVE...read more

A comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the world from 1493 to 1945

The feline companion to 'Postcard Dogs' - a beautifully produced gift book of over 225 photographs.

Provides an account of the last one hundred years illustrated through postcards collected from around the world, offering a glimpse of what daily life was like through the messages enscribed on each card.